Novel photon sources, such as the first ultimate storage ring facility - MAX IV Laboratory in Lund, Sweden are key to gaining a deeper understanding of the structure and functional relationships of complex matter, including biological materials. These materials can be: macromolecules and their complexes in crystals or solutions, whole cells, tissues or even the investigation of entire organisms.
Life Science at MAX IV
by
Dr. Uwe Müller
Group manager diffraction & scattering beamlines
BioMAX beam line manager
MAX IV Laboratory
Lund University
Tuesday January 23rd, 2018, 09:00
NorStruct Lunch room, Forskningsparken 3
Today life science researchers must choose from a large repertoire of experimental techniques or combinations of them to address the questions of their research projects.
Besides the traditional single crystal diffraction using the rotation method, new ways and means should be considered. This can be schemes to collect diffraction data from many very small crystals (SSX), or to run large scale screening campaigns of one designated target protein against libraries of small molecules, within a fragment based screening approach.
All these methods have in common the requirement for extremely brilliant X-ray sources with micrometer sized X-ray beams.
Within this presentation a contemporary overview of the available methods will be given and the future possibilities of life science research at the MAX IV Laboratory will be shown. The presentation will provide also a detailed description of the macromolecular crystallography beamlines at MAXIV.
Når: 23.01.18 kl 09.15–10.00
Hvor: NorStruct lunch room, Forskningsparken
Sted: Tromsø
Målgruppe: alle
Ansvarlig: Ronny Helland